Originally Posted by
beachfan
nowhere does it say if a standard room is available for revenue, then an award room should be available. That’s the old SPG rule, was never the Marriott rule.
It just says that a standard award must be available every day. It doesn’t say how many rooms. It doesn’t say when those rooms need to be available.
Actually, the terms say the following:
"i. Participating Properties from the following Brands may limit the number of standard rooms available for redemption on a limited number of days: The Ritz-Carlton®, EDITION®, JW Marriott®, Marriott Hotels®, Delta Hotels®, Autograph Collection® Hotels, Renaissance® Hotels, Gaylord Hotels®, Courtyard®, SpringHill Suites®, Protea Hotels®, Fairfield by Marriott®, AC Hotels®, Moxy® Hotels, Residence Inn®, TownePlace Suites®"
By suggesting that only the brands listed above may limit the number of standard rooms available for redemption would necessarily suggest that brands not listed above (i.e. the legacy SPG brands) may
not limit the number of standard rooms available for redemption. If all brands could deploy capacity controls, then the clause above would not be necessary, right?
Oh and for the record, "was never the Marriott rule" is also not true. The initial combined T&Cs from August 18th 2018 did in fact adopt the SPG policy on capacity controls (or lack thereof) for all of Marriott. The FAQs were also quite clear on this "if a room is standard room is available for cash, it is available for points." The Marriott hotel owners pitched a fit and as a result the clause above was inserted into 3.2.n to return Marriott brands to the pre-merger capacity control language.